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June 23, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 23, 2011, Thursday, Hour #2
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Really digging it, folks.
I'm really having a good time.
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There is news out there.
Labor Department jobless benefits are up again, and the experts are surprised.
The number of people requesting unemployment benefits is much larger than expected.
Ben Bernanke, the Mr. Big at the Federal Reserve.
Had a press conference.
You know, there aren't too many Federal Reserve chairman press conferences.
I think you can count the number of press conferences that chairman of the Fed have had a one hand.
Thank you.
And he called a press conference and he said, look at it, I really don't know why the economy is fizzling.
He did.
We've got the sound bites coming up.
He doesn't know.
I do.
He doesn't know.
Or else he knows and just won't say.
But they're puzzled.
They have spent all this stuff.
Of course they haven't now, because the new mantra is that all this has been Bush's fault.
Republicans have been sabotaging the economy even since Obama was elected.
This actually is Obama's first day on the job today.
Based on his uh his remarks last night.
Bernanke admits clueless on the economy.
That's in Forbes Magnus.
I did two or three stories on this.
Obama plans to release 30 million barrels of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve.
Gasoline prices do not now average over four bucks.
They've come down a little bit.
Well, I know, but but 30 million barrels is nothing.
This is I mean, here's a guy releasing 30 million barrels.
It must mean that increasing supply is pretty important.
Why not drill for it here?
Why not raise the moratorium?
Oh no.
No, no, no.
Can't do that.
Why that'd be silly.
What are you talking about, Limbaugh?
Raise the drilling moratorium, get rid of that.
No, we'll just we'll release some uh barrels of crude from the strategic reserve.
That's what we'll do.
Now I've got the audio sound bites, uh ladies and gentlemen, of Schumer and Durban blaming the Republicans for sabotaging the Republican, uh, the economy.
But first, before we get to that, Eric Cantor, who is a member of the House Republican leadership, has walked out of negotiations on the debt ceiling with the Obama regime.
And it's all because Cantor says, look, until until the regime is willing to get serious talking about taxes and tax cuts and their role in dealing with the debt ceiling.
I'm not gonna waste my time anymore.
I'm just not going.
So Eric Cantor has bailed out of the debt reduction talks, saying he's not gonna participate any longer until um Obama resolves the issue of taxes.
And now there's a there's a threat.
There's talk of dueling press conferences.
Cantor's gonna have one of his own explain why he went.
The White House is maybe gonna schedule their own press conference at the same time to explain probably why they're glad Cantor is leaving.
But I think it's I think it's fascinating.
It's odd.
It's a little weird.
This White House seems to be able to negotiate with everybody except the Republicans.
They can negotiate with Basher Al-Assad, they can negotiate with uh Hugo Chavez, they can they can negotiate with Taliban.
They can negotiate with Hamas.
They can't negotiate with the Republicans.
Why is that?
I mean, the Taliban never accused the Obama administration of not bargaining in good faith.
I'm sorry I had to say it.
But that's probably why the Taliban, they've never gone public and accused the regime of not bargaining in good faith.
The Republicans do.
Here's Banner.
John Boehner's Speaker of the House's weekly press briefing explaining Eric Cantor.
I know the frustration that he feels when uh Democrat members continue to want to bring tax hikes into this conversation.
And I think Mr. Canner's made it clear that uh these conversations could continue if they take the tax hikes out of the conversation.
So Eric Candor's walking out.
Now they'll call him a quitter and they'll say he's in a race with Sarah Palin to see who can quit the best in the most spectacular fashion and all that.
Now this really is something, folks.
It's one thing to read about it in a sycophant newspaper story in the Washington Post, but to hear these guys.
We announced in the first hour, Dick Turbin and Chuck Hugh Schumer.
The new strategy is to blame the Republicans for sabotage, purposely sabotaging the economy.
Republicans purposely sabotaging the whole co notion of job creation.
By not passing anything, which, ladies and gentlemen, it proves, or it answers the question that we've been asking about the Democrats.
Is this destruction of the U.S. economy on purpose?
Are they just a bunch of well-intentioned ignorant know nothing, idiots?
Now we know because of their tendency to project.
They'll always tell you what they're doing by accusing us of doing it.
Therefore, we now know.
They are purposely targeting the private sector of this country, sabotaging it if you will, slow down the economy, eliminate job creation, and so forth.
Their reasons are different than what they accuse the Republicans of doing.
They say the Republicans are doing it to gain electoral advantage.
We say they are doing it because they fundamentally don't like America as founded, and they want to transform it.
They want it to be an official, no doubt about it, socialist regime.
And you gotta tear it all apart first and then rebuild it socialist to get there.
You have to you have to that's nation building, and then in reverse, you've got to destroy the country as it is.
You've got to take away people's jobs, and then set yourself up as the place they go to get another one.
That's what the Democrats are doing.
They're not doing it for any electoral advantage, they're doing it to fundamentally change a country they don't like.
So here's uh here's here's Dick Turbin yesterday during a Senate Democrat press conference.
When we bring up bills that really have a chance to create jobs, they stop them with a hundred amendments, unrelated amendments.
That avalanche of amendments is not a show of good faith in dealing with this economy.
It's a show of bad faith.
They want to play political games at the expense of getting this economy back on its feet.
They believe that a weak economy is their best chance of winning the next election.
Well, you do too.
And no question that you do.
But of course, these are the guys that have not presented one plan.
They don't have a plan for jobs.
They have not submitted a budget in I don't know how many hundreds of days.
Here's Chuck Hugh Schumer at the same press conference getting in on this action.
Thank you.
So if they'd oppose even something so suited to their tastes ideologically, it shows that they're just opposing anything that would help create jobs.
It almost makes you wonder if they aren't trying to slow down the economic recovery for political gain.
I mean, what are we?
Four years old, Senator Schumer.
It almost makes you wonder if they aren't trying to slow down the economic recovery for political gain.
It almost makes you wonder.
No, it doesn't.
But okay, this it's now official.
This this is the game plan.
Nothing Obama has done the last two years has happened.
He's not even a factor here.
Now, I mentioned in the last hour if you're just joining us.
What I mentioned was can they and they float this?
Part of this is their floating is in a trial balloon.
They put it out there.
Can they get any Democrat strategists on cable TV to go along with it?
Can they get somebody to carry their water out there?
Can they get a strategist, an ally, somebody on cable TV regularly to pick this up and run with it and make their case?
And it appears, ladies and gentlemen, they have found just the person.
Jonathan Walter.
Bloomberg View magazine columns used to be with the Newsweek.
A lot of people did.
No longer with Newsweek, but he's with he's with somebody out there.
He's on MSNBC all the time.
And he uh got a question from Sergeant Schultz out there.
Uh those are the top Democrats right there, some pretty strong language.
Is this going to be politically successful them uh for them to drive this narrative home?
Do you think they can sell this, Jonathan, that the Republicans are who's sabotaging the economy?
There's a lot to recommend what they're saying.
The evidence supports it.
Let's just take one proposal a payroll tax holiday extension so that people are paying less in taxes as workers and as employers.
You would think that that would be enormously popular with Republicans.
Their religion is tax cuts.
Do they support this?
No.
Why not?
Well, that's the question that's on the table right now.
Why would Republicans not support a Republican idea to help create jobs?
And that's why the Democrats have gone to this explanation that maybe they do.
It sounds sick, but maybe they do want to keep the economy uh in the doldrums through the 2012 election.
Oh, my friends, I am so good at this it scares even me.
They found a guy.
They found a guy to carry their water.
Jonathan Alter.
So yeah, he's oh, yeah, I I mean, yes, there's a lot to recommend what they're saying.
You wouldn't think so, but but there really is.
It's yes, they they do have a point.
The Republicans are indeed sabotaging the economy.
Now, Dick Durbin, just so we all know Dick Durbin wants to spend more money, nothing to talk about with him.
He doesn't care.
All he wants to do is spend more money.
Durbin is responsible for this economic disaster, as is F. Chuck Hugh Schumer.
I mean, these these are these are the losers demanding more disaster.
This is exactly what they're doing.
I but I it just is.
I'm sorry to keep being repetitive, but this is audacious to blame the Republicans.
Of all the things I thought they would come up with to counter, I never.
Honest, I will admit to you, I never thought that they would be so brazen as to actually take the last two years of utter disaster and try to blame it on the Republicans.
I should have thought of it.
It's what they always do first.
I figured no way will they try it here.
It's not possible.
The Republicans are not responsible for one policy.
They have not had the votes to stop anything or to pass anything.
But that doesn't matter because these people know they've got the press on their side and they think they can create this alternative universe reality and sell it, and who knows?
Maybe they can.
It's gonna be fat, folks.
You know, let's be very quiet from now on talking about this.
Let's just keep a sharp eye on cable TV, and we'll see.
Who are the Democrat strategists that begin to appear to reveal themselves this afternoon and tonight carrying this ball forward?
That the Republicans are sabotaging the economy.
Now the point they're saying sabotaging the economy for the purposes of winning election.
They want to have the economy in bad shape for winning reelection.
That's not new.
Both parties always accuse each other of that.
This That's not what makes this audacious.
What makes this audacious is that Obama has, the Democrats have singularly targeted this economy to destroy it.
They don't want to, and that's what this proves.
And so now we're going to find out if they can get some people on their side.
Because when you suggest now that Republicans want to sabotage the economy, this means sabotage the economy for good.
They're doing it on purpose.
Let's just see who and how many they can find to start singing the same tune later this afternoon or tonight, maybe even tomorrow, all over cable TV.
Your guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, chaos, audacious lies, and even the good time.
No, it is going to be the Republicans are going to have to call them on this.
If the Republicans just sit there and let this go by, and of course, one of the one of the things the Democrats are counting on, you know, they're talking about a miniature sunset on Social Security taxes and this kind of thing, which, you know, a temporary holiday reduction is not going to change behavior.
People are just going to pocket the money and go about their lives.
They're not going to change behavior.
So, you know, while we like holidays and so forth, that's not tax reform.
It's not bold tax reduction, and this is one of the reasons that Cantor is walking out here.
They're, you know, it's like getting a raise for one year and they take it away from you.
It's not serious.
It's not substantive.
It's nothing you can count on.
There's nothing that you could derive any certainty from.
So it's just a gimmick.
And that's what Cantor is saying.
Stop playing games and we'll sit here, we'll talk to you about all this.
But no.
You remember when the Republicans were fighting tooth and nail to extend the Bush tax cuts.
Were they trying to sabotage the economy then?
Because Obama, as you know, agreed we needed to extend the Bush tax cuts last December in order to preserve our robust recovery.
Remember that.
Now the Democrats are resorting to the devil made me do it defense, the devil being the Republicans.
It's not a new tactic.
It's quite common, in fact.
It's just in this case.
It is so obvious to even the sycophant stenographers in the media.
It is so obvious that Obama policies are the problem with unemployment.
Obama policies are the reason the economy's not growing.
Everybody knows that.
It's just how, you know, how big do you want to wink and nod and look the other way?
Because you really love Obama.
He's the first black president that matters to you, and you really want him to succeed, and you certainly don't want the Republicans winning anything.
So, you know, it you got to balance here.
What's more important to us?
Saving the nation's economy or destroying Republicans.
And obviously, destroying the Republicans is always going to get more votes than saving the economy.
I'll deal with that later.
Any chance we have to destroy Republicans will take it.
That's the media view of things in their option.
So, or the options that they have.
So they'll they but they know everybody knows that stimulus was a slush fund.
Everybody knows that TARP was crony capitalism.
Everybody knows, for example, what I meant when I said I hope he fails.
I do not want a socialist nation.
Everybody knows that Obama's in over his head with these policies, and that what he's doing is not going to grow the economy.
They all know that.
That's actually what makes this even more brazen and in one sense hilarious.
The very people, and there are some exceptions.
Now, I must admit, when Durbin and Schumer go out there and start singing this tune, there are some journalists who fall for the con job.
I mean, Schumer and Durban are conning us.
And some of these reporters fall for the con.
There are a few.
The really hell-bent ideologs.
But a lot of the others know.
And that's what makes this so audacious.
They all know that it's Obama.
And yet the line of the day is that Republicans are committing sabotage.
And so we'll run with it.
And they all know that they're reporting lies.
They all know it.
They all know that it's bogus.
There's a name for this.
You know, in the old Soviet Union.
This tactic is as old as communism.
The Soviets used to call these people wreckers.
Wrecking was an official crime against the state in the old Soviet Union.
Wrecking means, of course, inflicting damage or harming.
It was a it was a crime spied in the criminal code of the Soviet Union in the Stalin era.
And it is often translated as sabotage.
Wrecking or sabotage could be broadly construed to mean anything that negatively affected the economy, including failing to meet economic targets, causing poor morale among workers, and wrecking in the old Soviet Union was punishable by ten years of prison, or in some cases, even death.
So there's a there's a name for this.
And this is the the Democrats are accusing the Republicans of doing the wrecking.
When everybody knows that it's Obama who's doing it, and the reason they know is because the most of them agree with it.
They do think the U.S. needs to be shown a thing or two.
Learn a couple of lessons, if you will.
Former Vice President Al Gore...
Says that President Obama has failed.
That's right.
President Obama took friendly fire yesterday.
Former vice president and environmentalist Waco Al Gore said the president had failed in his handling of global climate change.
Al Gore was writing in Rolling Stone, said that Obama has not made the case for action by the American people.
President Obama has thus far failed to use the bully poopit to make the case for bold action on climate change, wrote Al Gore.
After successfully passing his green stimulus package, he did nothing to defend it when Congress decimated its funding.
Without presidential leadership that focuses intensely on my earning a supreme living, making the public aware of the reality we face, nothing will change.
Al Gore not happy.
President Obama dropping the green energy agenda.
Where do we go next on the phone?
Seattle.
Seattle, Anya.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Nice to have you with us.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
You are so excellent.
It is scary.
I uh I just want to wish you a wonderful day from Seattle and Los Angeles native.
And um, I just uh you're near my old hometown of Pacific Palisade, so have fun out there.
Um I just wanted to say that uh the I'm a conservative, but I've got to hand it to the Democrats.
They're being consistent.
Uh let me just tie it to the glob global warming for a second.
The Republicans are ruining the economy by existing just by breathing.
Same as global warming, like we as humans, you know, besides the Libs and the Democrats, of course.
Right.
That's we are we who are saving the earth, we are ruining the earth and the economy just by existing.
So the Republicans just go away and things will be okay.
Just like if we on the earth, you know, the people that are not democratic go away, then they can go on saving the earth.
So, you know, and I I just think that their their blame matrix is consistent, you know.
Uh, you know, according to the Democrats, the Bush is the most powerful man since Jesus.
I mean, he changes history before him and after him and on in to eternity.
It's just it's amazing to me how they can blame him on this economy still.
So, well, the anything but to blame Obama, uh, but it's part is part of the real extra teachery.
It's I uh I I probably should have to apologize to the audience.
It's so audacious I can't drop it.
I I am still struck by it.
I I think I've seen everything they can do, and I I've thought they can't surprise me anymore.
Uh uh it might be able to surprise a lot of other people, but not not I, El Roshbo.
This blame us.
We don't have a vote.
We don't have any power.
We're trying to save the economy, and they're gonna they're admitting that there's an assault on the economy.
This is profound what's happening here today.
This is not insignificant in terms of just the average uh new day political strategy.
They are admitting that a sabotage of the economy is taking place.
They are admitting that somebody's purposely harming the creation of jobs.
They're purposely are admitting that all of this is is happening by design in order to try to get it the blamed on the Republicans.
So I just I this this this a new low, even for this bunch, which I think they're so low when they look up now, they see the gutter.
Are you still there, Anya?
Oh, I'm here.
I'm here.
I've been listening to you.
I love listening to you.
Um and I have to say one more thing about I think Wasserman, the new wiener.
I I just have to say she's the new wiener.
What they're gonna use her as the the new wiener personal.
That's abs I I think uh and I know you mean that with a straight face.
I totally do.
I know.
I know exactly what you mean.
Wiener Wiener was one of these uh uh loud obnoxious in your face, yes, uncivil, accusatory, and you're right.
She is from the same mold.
Yeah.
I I think that she'd make a perfect uh stand in while he's out doing what he needs to do until he regroups.
So I love your show.
You are a brilliant and funny and have a wonderful time in California.
Come up to Seattle come up to Seattle sometime.
The golf and the summer up here is amazing.
You know, I just read a I didn't read, I watched a uh a TV series called The Killing that is set in Seattle.
I think the killing was on AMC.
And it was on Sunday nights at 10 o'clock.
And I I arrived at this thing late.
I I had never heard of it until I read that everybody who watched it was excited about the finale, which aired this past Sunday night.
So I engaged with my iPad in a marathon.
I watched twelve of these things inside of about ten days, coupled it with all the other aspects of my schedule, and I got hooked.
Pretty good show.
And I got the the finale was supposed to be Sunday night, one of the greatest finales ever, and whoever wrote this finale phoned it in.
They just they took a cop out.
There was I've talked to so many people who love the killing who have been profoundly affected, disappointed at the uh at the finale.
But it takes place in Seattle, and they portray Seattle as no sunshine ever.
Yeah, thirteen episodes, nothing.
It was like the movie Sleva Seven, uh the just constant rain and darkness.
Yeah, when I first moved here from um from Los Angeles and Calabasas area, it uh it was literally a hundred days of rain.
It broke the record the first year I moved here, and I I I said, what is a rain planet?
But I guess um I guess the global warming thing isn't really working out.
So it turns out it is beautiful.
It is, and it's it's not one of it's there's many myths about a lot of places in the country, and uh Seattle is always raining, is one of those myths.
Well, Anya, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it, I really do.
We have time.
Yes, we do.
We're gonna stop next at Queens.
This is Bill.
And uh your turn here on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yeah, how are you doing, Rush?
Uh I'll start off with the killing.
I thought they told him in the last three episodes.
And um also I thought uh I would have bet on um who who came uh who is that Jonathan Walter.
I think he was the favorite.
You know, uh as who would get out there first.
You really you thought Jonathan Alter would be the media guy to first agree with the theory Republicans are sabotaging the economy's destruction and all that.
No doubt about it.
Unless Matthews could get through makeup a little early, you know.
Uh but what I really called about is I think you'll be a little too easy on Obama.
I think he's not only destroying our country and our economy, but the entire world's political stability and economy.
I think the Egyptian riots were really about commodity prices.
I think in China, they have uh trillions of dollars that they're taking in from around the world, and they need to invest it, and they don't know where to put it anymore because the dollar was the destabilizing force of the world's economy.
They can't put it in the dollar anymore.
They can't put it in commodities.
Where are they going to put their money so their economy is not a good thing?
Let me play ball here.
I think he might be cosmically horrible and maybe the worst leader in the history of the world.
Okay.
What would he possibly want to destroy the world for?
Well, I don't think he's trying.
I don't think he wants to.
I just think it it's uh it's a byproduct of him trying to change fundamentally America.
I mean, uh fundamentally America was the anchor of the world's stability.
Yeah.
Well, you see, now this takes me back to square one.
Anybody taking a look at what he's doing knows it's not going to work and never will work.
Everybody knows that this is destructive.
He has he has to know it, and yet they persist in it.
They persist in it.
So when you say, I don't think he's trying to destroy the world again.
You if he's trying to sabotage the U.S. economy, and if we're in a linchpin of the world economy, then the conclusion is the conclusion.
Well, yeah, maybe he is knowingly tried to do that and a reason I can't give you a reason.
I don't know.
That can be a good thing.
He wants to run.
You give me a reason.
Wants to run the IMF, the United Nations, or whatever, head honcho of the world.
And maybe the way he figures to get it is to totally screw it up, blame it on Bush, so the world will beg him to run the world.
Who knows?
We're not dealing with balanced people here, folks.
Uh be quite honest with you.
That's another undeniable truth of life.
We're being led to believe that the best and the brightest are among us.
We are not being led by the best and brightest.
These are the mediocre and the dangerous.
If if if they if they're allowed to continue unobstructed, this political march that they're on, I shudder to think because I know where it's all going to end up for the country.
I think about it here, folks.
President Obama in a nutshell now says we cannot continue to fight in Afghanistan too expensive.
But what is the logic here?
Doesn't he insist that massive government spending is the only thing that'll lift us out of recession?
And that we have to do a lot more of it, but somehow all that spending on the military in Afghanistan, that won't cut it.
And it as we speak, dingy Harry, Senate Democrats pushing for yet another round of stimulus spending.
But the war in Afghanistan would suffice.
In fact, it was World War II that got FDR out of the fire.
It was Paul Krugman, just to remind you, New York Times, Paul Krugman saying just a few months ago, back in September 2010, almost a year, well, nine months, that we needed another World War II to get us out of the recession.
Even Krugman was finally admitting that it was only World War II that finally lifted us out of the Great Depression.
It was not the New Deal.
So if massive government spending is good for the economy, how come the war in Afghanistan isn't actually helping the economy?
I'll tell you why.
I'll tell you why.
It's re-elect time.
Don't doubt me on this, folks.
You're going to think that this is over the top.
It's not.
It's re-elect time.
It's run for re-election time.
Obama is losing his base.
He's lost the independence.
He has got to get the base down.
Gotta get them back.
You don't get the base of the Democrat Party by winning wars.
You do not hold the far-left fringe of the Democrat Party as ardent energized supporters, manning phone banks for you.
And running around bundling funds and raising funds.
That's not going to happen among the base If you go out and win a war.
Lose a war.
Ah, now we're talking.
Go out and lose a war and maybe humiliate a general or two in the process.
Then you have a chance of reclaiming the Democrat base.
Don't doubt me.
Mr. Limbaugh, that's simply that's simply unathictable that you could say something like that about citizens of a country of the United States.
That's true, Mr. New Castrati.
And you know it as well as I do.
I mean, you have to admit Obama's campaign speech last night was for what it was, one of his most impressive so far.
It was clear that Obama needed and wanted to shore up his anti-American base, known as the Democrat Party.
If if I had to guess, I'd say that most of Obama's fringe is not all that happy he killed bin Laden.
He's probably been paying a little bit of a political price, maybe not so much for killing bin Laden, but he's been out there doing his Tarzan business, uh beating his chest and claiming credit.
Big time warrior now, I killed Bin Laden.
That doesn't fit well with the Democrat base.
Announcing he's now planning to lose the war in Afghanistan was maybe one of the best moves he could have made to uh reconnect with the Democrat base.
Who's next?
Richard Edwardsville, Kansas.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
You're on the EIB network.
Hello.
Megadetto's rush um uh from uh the only conservative left in Wine.
No, no, tell me that's not true.
I have been to Yan.can.
Don't tell you, there's got to be more than you there.
Well, maybe two or three, but uh it's pretty slim pecking.
Anyway, I was calling about uh the uh uh I wish the Republicans would bring up the fact that uh the uh uh Social Security tax breaks at uh Obama hikes and the DIMs that you just had on uh would uh bring up the fact that uh that a lot of our companies uh had to raise our insurance rates to offset uh uh the uh fact that we're insuring uh the miners till they're 26 years old and uh uh people with pre-existing conditions,
and so I saw a zero sum gain on that Social Security break due to the fact that we're going into the uh Obama plan already.
So I just wanted to share that with you and and uh point that out.
Well, I appreciate it, I really do.
I hope like that uh they start to point out the fact that uh we're not seeing much in the in the way of breaks uh from uh the Obama plan.
It's his health insurance is gonna breaks.
Franks, it's gonna breaks.
How about how about how about uh do the opposite of breaks?
I mean, you you're gonna start seeing uh obstacles.
I mean, but we're not we're not we're not talking about breaks here.
Besides, if you're talking about specifically, if I if I if I have straight what you're talking about, you're not even talking about something that's permanent that's gonna change anybody's behavior.
This is just it's a trick gimmick if you're talking about a tax holiday for social security.
Uh yeah.
I know, I know they're blaming countries companies for a while for not hiring.
They keep going back and forth.
Okay, who is it sabotaging the economy?
Well, it's businesses sitting in all this cash, refusing to hire anybody.
Now it's the Republicans.
And they keep you know throwing this dart up against the wall until it sticks someplace.
And they've found it.
Blame the Republicans for it.
Jonathan Alder is carrying the water.
He'll be joined by others this afternoon tonight on Cable TV.
John in Brooklyn.
Hello, sir.
You're on the EIB network with El Rushbow.
Hi.
Hello.
Yes, sir.
Hi.
I'm glad to talk to you.
First of all, I want to tell you, I remember last week when the f and then the first time unemployment uh applications came out to us 400 to 14,000.
And you said that Thursday that it's going to go up next week, going to be revised to at least 470, 418.
I then told my friend I will hold the Rush accountable.
And here we go.
It's up to 420,000.
They always do that.
you can always count on they'll revise the original numbers up.
It always happens.
Anyway, but I have two questions.
First of all, I just want to know what do you think.
What is Grenada by Reagan different than Libya by Obama?
Why have Reagan had to gr to invade Grenada and Obama should stay out of Libya?
Well, Grenada took a couple of hours.
Uh Grenada was it was being overrun by uh uh a communist regime.
It had allies in this country.
Ron Dellums, nickname was Ron Red Dellums from Oakland.
He was a member of Congress at the time.
He's now, I think, mayor of Oakland or is uh former mayor of Oakland.
But there were Americans going to school in Grenada, and they were in the process of of being caught up in a in a near coup uh by a communist country, and Reagan said, No, I'm not I'm not gonna pull up put up with this.
This is not far removed from what was going on in Nicaragua with uh the Sandinistas and the Contras.
They're really in a whole bunch of uh uh uh the analogy here between Grenada and Libya doesn't hold up that much.
The reason that we're going into Libya is not to oppose communism, we're in Libya so that Obama can prove he's a tough guy.
It is true, folks.
The only way the Democrats can deal with the destruction that they have unleashed is to lie about it.
And they will continue to do it, and they're gonna pick up converts to carry the ball.
It's gonna be amazing to witness this.
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